Category Archives: Food

I bake a lot and although the item I am most proud of, the one that would be my technical challenge for GBBO contestants, is the bagel, the foodstuff that started the compulsive baking is pizza. For a little context, I have tried five different dough recipes and although I have settled on one that […]

You don’t eat brunch. You do brunch. I took a break from reading War and Peace to breeze through Ternikar’s slim history of Brunch from its origins in Great Britain in the late 1800s to its global phenomenon. Although it began in Great Britain, Ternikar shows that Brunch took root in the United States. One […]

Sometimes when Amazon reviewers give low marks to a book the comments indicate that a book is not good. Sometimes the comments reveal that the Person Angry on the Internet didn’t actually read the same book that the author wrote. Sometimes the reader understood the book but is just angry that it isn’t the book […]

America’s pretzel-bun fetish has gone too far. It was fun at first, to have a tangy, spongy, salty roll for burgers and sandwiches. It was new and exotic and pretzels themselves are delicious with mustards and cheese sauces. But the pretzel bun is dense and has a tendency to dry out. If you dip a […]

Some years ago, I read an internet advice column that suggested men learn how to cook and keep a stocked cupboard so as to impress ladies. The advisor, a woman, recounted how attractive it was one time when she was with a man on his couch and, upon expressing hunger, he leapt into the kitchen […]

About me

Joshua Nudell is a historian of Ancient Greece, with a particular emphasis on Ionia, Macedonia, Thessaly, and other peripheral areas of the Northern and Eastern Aegean. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri.

He is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Centered on the Periphery: the changing dynamic between Ionia and Imperial Powers 454-294 BCE."